comment by
Roland Preuss
The AfD has lived up to its name in a twisted way. Since it was founded ten years ago, it has been offering alternatives to the other parties in the Bundestag. The spectrum now ranges from a radically tough asylum policy and a pro-Russian stance in the Ukraine war to rejection of the energy transition, which is said to bring economic downfall to Germans. Seen in this way, the party redeems its claim to offer answers that no one else advocates. And even more so than when it was founded. The initiators, around economics professor Bernd Lucke and publicist Konrad Adam, were primarily concerned with dissolving the euro system, but apart from that, much should remain as it was. Only: Alternatives are not a value in themselves. What the AfD offers is no profit. Neither the demands themselves, nor the way in which they are presented.